Households across the country have seen a combined £1.2 billion added to energy bills thanks to 42 price rises in the six months since the Government's flagship price cap was supposed to end rip-off bills, new research has found.

The Big Six energy suppliers have seen profits fall for the first time since 2014 as customers flock to smaller competitors, but more than half of households remain on poor-value default deals, the regulator said.

Scotland’s largest in-development offshore wind farm has been sold by its Irish owner to French energy giant EDF.
The £1.8 billion Neart Na Gaoithe (NNG) array off Fife Ness is one of the largest ever to be brought forward in Scotland and physical construction of the array is due to begin imminently.

Scottish Renewables chief executive Claire Mack said yesterday that the "general uncertainty" caused by Brexit isn't good for the Scottish renewable energy sector, but that the industry is "by no means the worst off".

Energy giant EDF has revealed details of the progress in building the first new nuclear power station in a generation, including a sea wall, accommodation for workers and tunnels to carry cabling and pipes.